Lot 2011
  • 2011

An English Provincial silver Apostle spoon, marked with a crowned X probably for Exeter, 17th Century

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • marked in bowl only
  • length 7 1/2 in.
  • 19 cm
with fig-shaped bowl pricked on the back IL/L and 1680, the flattened handle topped by a roughly cast gilt figure of an apostle with rosette halo

Condition

apostle with gilding rubbed at high spots, surface scratches throughout and some dings to bowl, otherwise good, weight: 1 oz 10 dwt / 50 g
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